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Iran’s supreme leader hails end of IS ‘tumour’

TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader has praised his country's contribution to the fight against the Islamic State group, saying it had helped destroy a "tumour"...

Was IS claim for Las Vegas attack ‘fake news’?

LAS VEGAS: Claims of responsibility for terror attacks by the Islamic State group were once seen as credible, but in the wake of the...

Russian general killed fighting IS in east Syria

DEIR EZZOR: A Russian general was killed while battling Islamic State group militants near the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, Moscow's defence ministry...

Jordan, Iraq reopen only border crossing

AMMAN: Jordan and Iraq on Wednesday reopened their only border crossing, saying security had been restored three years after the Islamic State group seized...

IS destroys 840-year-old al-Nuri mosque in Mosul

MOSUL: The Islamic State group destroyed Mosul’s al-Nuri mosque and its iconic leaning minaret known as al-Hadba when fighters detonated explosives inside the structures...

WATCH: Noreen Laghari says she was to be used as suicide bomber

RAWALPINDI: Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Monday released the confessional video statement of Noreen Laghari, a Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences...

In parts of Mosul, a semblance of normality despite war

MOSUL, Iraq: In some parts of Mosul, you can almost forget that a war is being waged over the city between Iraqi forces and Islamic...

Over 30 dead as IS attacks city in east Syria

BEIRUT: The Islamic State (IS) group launched a ferocious assault on a city in eastern Syria, leaving more than 30 militants and regime fighters...

Attacker still on run as IS claims Istanbul New Year massacre

ISTANBUL: Islamic State militants on Monday claimed the shooting rampage at a glamorous Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 on New Year's night, while police...

Turkey accuses IS of killing 30 civilians in Syria

ISTANBUL: The Turkish army on Monday accused Islamic State (IS) militants of killing at least 30 civilians seeking to flee the flashpoint Syrian town...

Armed force alone will never vanquish IS, US experts say

WASHINGTON: If the Islamic State group is to be defeated and prevented from reappearing under some new guise, the root causes behind its birth...

Shah Noorani shrine temporarily closed for visitors, section-144 imposed

HUB: The shrine of Shah Noorani which was hit by a huge bomb attack on Saturday has been closed for visitors as confirmed by...

Two Yazidi survivors of IS group win Sakharov prize: sources

STRASBOURG, FRANCE: Two Yazidi women activists who escaped the Islamic State group in Iraq won the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize on...

Unknown gunmen kill intelligence officer in Charsadda

PESHAWAR: Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead an intelligence officer in north-west Pakistan on Monday, police said. Akbar Ali, an intelligence sub-inspector, was on...

Iraqi Kurds say they captured town near Mosul

ERBIL: Kurdish fighters said they had taken the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from Islamic State on Sunday as coalition forces pressed their offensive...

Strike kills 19 civilians in IS-held Syria village: monitor

BEIRUT: Three children were among at least 19 civilians killed in an air strike on a village held by the Islamic State group in...

IS sex slavery survivor named UN goodwill ambassador

UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES: Nadia Murad Basee Taha, a young Iraqi woman who survived rape and abuse as a sex slave of Islamic State fighters on Friday became a UN goodwill ambassador for the dignity of survivors of human trafficking.

Erdogan blames child bomber for Turkey attack that killed 51

GAZIANTEP, TURKEY: A suicide bomber aged between 12 and 14 carried out the attack on a wedding party in the Turkish city of Gaziantep on Saturday that killed at least 51 people, the president said.

Some arrests made in Quetta suicide attack, says Nisar

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Tuesday revealed that some suspects were arrested for their possible links with the Quetta suicide attack in which over 70, mostly lawyers and video journalists were killed and hundreds of others injured.

IS fights back as Iraqi army enters into Falluja

CAMP TARIQ, IRAQ: Islamic State militants fought back vigorously overnight and parried an onslaught by the Iraqi army on a southern district of the city of Falluja, the group's bastion near Baghdad, officers said on Tuesday.
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